England was merry England, when England, with all thy faults I love thee still, 235. W. CowPER (1731-1800), The Task: The Timepiece. 236. The English take their pleasures sadly.1Translation from “ Memoirs of the Duc de Sully' (1630). Enough is as good as a feast. 237. ISAAC BICKERSTAFF (1735-1812), Love in a Village, Act iii. sc. 1. Envy is a kind of praise. 238. JOHN GAY (1688-1732), Fables, Part I. No. 44. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Except I be by Sylvia in the night, 256. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth -New Testament (A. V. 1611), Gospel according to St. Matthew, chap. v. ver. 38. JOHN LYLY (1554?-1606), Euphues, or Eyes of most unholy blue. 258. THOMAS MOORE (1779-1852), Irish Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." Faint heart faire lady ne'ere could win. 260. EDMUND SPENSER (1553-99), Britain's Ida, Canto v. The fair humanities of old religion. 261. S. T. COLERIDGE (1772-1834), The Piccolomini. Translated from Schiller, Act iii. sc. 3. Fair is foul and foul is fair. 262. (Witches.) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), 263. (Be thou) faithful unto death.-New Testa- 265. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Henry VIII, Act iii. sc. 2. Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! The royal banner, and all quality, 1 A quotation made by St. Paul from Menander. If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone. (Othello.) 266. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Othello, Act iii. sc. 3. 267. Fascination of a name. v. No. 969. 268. Fast and furious the mirth and fun grew. v. No. 685. 269. The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the THOMAS GRAY (1716-71), Ode on the The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 272. Fear God. Honour the king.-New Testament (A. V. 1611), First Epistle of Peter, chap. ii. Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages. (Song by Guiderius.) 273. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), 274. Few and far between. A few more years shall roll, A few more seasons come, v. No. 41. And we shall be with those that rest Asleep within the tomb. 275. HORATIUS BONAR (1808-89), Hymn. ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744), Moral 277. Filthy lucre.-New Testament (A. V. 1611), First Epistle to Timothy, chap. iii. 278. A firebrand plucked out of the burning.— ROBERT BROWNING (1812-89), Home The fit's upon me now. BEAUMONT (1586-1616), and FLETCHER (1576-1625), Wit without Money, Act v. JOHN BRIGHT (1811-89), Birmingham, (He is the) fountain of honour. 293. BACON (1560-1626), Of a King. 294. Fourth estate of the realm. v. No. 311. Frailty, thy name is woman. (Hamlet.) 295. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Hamlet, Act i. sc. 2. Framed in the prodigality of nature. (Richard III.) 296. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Richard III, Act i. sc. 2. French she spake ful fayre and fetisly, After the scole of Stratford-atte-Bowe, For Frenche of Paris was to hire unknowe. 297. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1328-1400), Canterbury Tales; Prologue. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him. (Mark Antony.) 298. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Julius Cæsar, Act iii. sc. 2. Friendship's the wine of life. 299. Rev. EDWARD YOUNG (1684–1765), From grave to gay, from lively to severe. From Greenland's icy mountains, Where Afric's sunny fountains 301. From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, 1 Founded on a common saying. Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made, Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Unto something rich and strange. 304. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Full many a gem of purest ray serene Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchymy. 306. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Sonnet 33. Full of strange baths, and bearded like the pard. (Jaques.) 307. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), As You Like It, Act ii. sc. 7. Full of wise saws and modern instances. (Jaques.) Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 309. WILLIAM SHAKESPERAE (1564-1616), Hamlet, Act i. sc. 2. 310. The gaiety of nations. v. No. 230. 311. The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.-LORD MACAULAY (1800-59), Essays: Hallam's Constitutional History. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 312. ROBERT HERRICK (1591-1674), Hesperides, No. 208. (Is this that haughty, gallant,) gay Lothario? 313. NICHOLAS ROWE (1673-1718), The Fair Penitent, Act v. sc. I. A God all mercy is a God unjust. God bless the king, I mean the faith's defender; Poems. 340. HENRY CAREY (1693 ?-1743). 341. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. New Testament (A. V. 1611), Revelation, chap. vii. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), God's in his heaven All's right with the world! 343. ROBERT BROWNING (1812-89), Pippa The golden gates of Sleep unbar, In a sea of glassy weather. 344. P. B. SHELLEY (1792-1822), Bridal Song. A good hater. 345. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-85). From Johnsoniana (Mrs. Piozzi). A good mouth-filling oath. (Hotspur.) WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), The good of subjects is the end of kings. ANIEL DEFOE (1661-1731), The True- The gorgus East with richest hand 348. her kings barbaric pearl and gold. HN MILTON (1608-74), Paradise Lost, Book I. 349. Government of the people, by the people, for the people.2-ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-65), Speech at ttysburg, Nov. 19, 1863. 350. A great empire and little minds go ill together. v. No. 647. Great fles have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'er And litt infinit '1 Four XXXV. : 2 Found eas have lesser fleas, and so ad in Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha), chap. him is no respect of persons." many similar sayings. 370 Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. 364. P. B. SHELLEY (1792-1822), To a Skylark. Hands across the sea, Feet on English ground, The old blood is bold blood, the wide world round. 365. BYRON WEBBER, Hands Across the Sea. 366. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them (i.e. children).-Old Testament (A. V. 1611), Psalm cxxvii. Happy the golden mean. A harmless, necessary cat. (Shylock.) Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls 370. THOMAS MOORE Melodies. (1779-1852), Irish Hateful is the dark-blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark-blue sea. 371. LORD TENNYSON (1809-92), Song of the He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. 372. H. W. LONGFELLOW (1807-82), The He has outsoared the shadow of our night; 374. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), He hath outstayed his welcome while, S. T. COLERIDGE (1772-1834), Youth He jests at scars that never felt a wound. (Romeo.) Himself to sing and build the lofty rhyme. 377. JOHN MILTON (1608–74), Lycidas. All's Well that Ends Well, Act He nothing common did or mean 383. ANDREW MARVELL (1621-78), Ode 384. He owes not any man. 386. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.-BACON (1560-1626), Essays, 8: Of Married and Single Life. He that is down needs fear no fall, 387. JOHN BUNYAN (1628-78), The Pilgrim's 388. He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.-New Testament (A. V. 1611), Gospel according to St. John, chap. viii. 389. He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled.— Apocrypha, Ecclesiaticus, chap. xiii. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. (Hamlet.) He was a veray parfit gentil knight. GEOFFREY CHAUCER (1328-1400), Canterbury Tales. Prologue. He was my friend, faithful and just to me. (Mark Antony.) 392. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), Julius Cæsar, Act iii. sc. 2. He was not all a father's heart could wish; But oh, he was my son !-my only son, My child! 393. JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1836), Orva, Act iii. sc. 2. He was not of an age, but for all time. 394. BEN JONSON (1574-1637), Memory of Shakespeare. 1 Written of Cowley. 2 Said of Charles I upon the scaffold. To the |